The Excavation Diary

The excavation diaries are a daily log kept by the excavators on site during each season. They record the day to day activity of the team and their observations on their work.
 
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Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/25/1999 
Entry: Jez Taylor. 25/04/1999. A brief account of today 's events: Following on from yesterday afternoon , we continued excavation of wall F.299 , to the south of Space 115. This has now been sub-divided into: (4211) brick , (4212) mortar , (4213) wall , and... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/24/1999 
Entry: Have been excavating a huge ( by Catal standards ) unit over the last week with Jez (4121). We have now more or less finished that off - the only parts remaining to be excavated are the step we left in to provide access to Building 2, and the part of the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/27/1999 
Entry: Jez Taylor. 27/04/1999. Yesterday morning , we completed excavation of wall F.299 at the southern limit of Space 115 , and moved on to later wall F.406 , which overlaps F.299 to the north and east , with wall repair (4224) to F.299 , stratigraphically li... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 5/1/1999 
Entry: The aim at the start of the season, once the original area of excavation was changed, was to finish space 117, building 2 and excavate as much of space 115 so as to release wall 406 to excavate that and make building 7 (shrine 8) safe to work in. Wall 40... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/2/1999 
Entry: Jez Taylor. 02/05/1999. Richard and myself , have now joined Craig in Space 164. Our excavation of wall F.406 , (which runs e-w across the upper northern limit of Space 164) , has been delayed. Initially , this was because of the conservation work being ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/8/1999 
Entry: Since getting out of the midden and taking down the wall ( 299 ) on the south side of space 115 I have been working with Jez in space 164, to start with carting zembils of spoil as the Mellaart backfill came out of this space, and then, once we had got do... click here for more... 
 

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